A giant garden and old age settles in the middle of the city of Bogor. The distance is approximately 60 km from the south of Jakarta or only one hour drive away from the concrete jungle Capital. The exact location in Jalan Ir. H. Juanda No. 13 Bogor, West Java. Bogor Botanical Gardens is special for Bogor once known as “Buitenzorg” or “Free Care”. A city with high rainfall throughout the year and a cooler climate than the Jakarta course.
Bogor Botanical Gardens is located in an area of 87 hectares offering to you the existence of 400 species of palm trees, 5,000 tropical trees from around the country, and home to 3,000 varieties of orchids. Imagine such an amount that makes the Bogor Botanical Gardens as a port to 3,504 plant species in 1,273 genera and 199 species.
This botanical garden is the result of initiation by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles 1811-1816. Raffles while serving Governor General of the Dutch East Indies bring in plants from the Botanical Gardens Kew in the UK then planted this orchard. Raffles first only make a small garden to remind his wife.
Bogor Botanical Gardens has some interesting collections, the corpse flower or titan arum flower (Amorphophallus titanum Becc.) Which is the world’s largest inflorescence reached a height of 3 meters. At the time of blossoming, he smelled of carrion so inviting insects to help pollination. Make sure you find out and see it immediately when possible. Oil palm (Elaeis guinensis) is one of the agricultural commodities brought from West Africa to Indonesia and seeds developed initially in the Bogor Botanical Gardens. Next seed that is the parent of coconut sawitse-East Asia. Interesting right! Visit the orchid house where there are approximately 10,000 specimens Bogor Botanical orchid collection is displayed in a room that is equipped with fogging systems as a moisture regulator. Bogor Palace was in the middle of the green berrumput pages where hundreds of spotted deer graze every day. This obviously can you capture with the camera’s favorite and be sure to take pictures with the background of the building. Near the entrance of the garden there is the Zoological Museum that has a collection of about 300,000 species of land and sea animals from all over Indonesia. In the museum there is also a skeleton of a blue whale, the last rhino found in the highlands of Bandung, and a “living fossil” coelacanth fish found in North Sulawesi. Several historic buildings and places of interest to visit is the Park Teysmann, a European-style garden that was built in 1889 as a tribute to Johannes Teysmann, one of the curators Bogor Botanical Gardens. Another interesting place is the Valley Park Sudjana Kasan, Jalan Astrid, Cactus Garden, also JJ Smith Monument, Suspension Bridge, Tree Bats, Grave Netherlands, as well as the Monument Lady Raffles.
Bogor Botanical Gardens then expanded and developed up to the inauguration of the first on May 18, 1817 with the name originally s’Lands te Plantentuin Buitenzorg. Botanists were instrumental in founding Prof. Dr. C. G. C. Reindwart the German. Bogor Botanical Garden was originally to be the center introduced a variety of economically important agricultural crops and now serves as a place for the conservation of plants and a research center for taxonomy and plant utilization. In horticulture, the garden serves as a study of plant adaptation, planting and crop development.
In addition to the Bogor Botanical Gardens, there is also the Bogor Palace, which was built by Governor General van Imhoff and became the residence of Raffles while archipelago. In 1954, the Palace has become a landmark in Bogor Conference attended by the Prime Minister of Indonesia (Sastroamidjojo), India (Jawaharlal Nehru), Ceylon (Sir John Kotelawala), Pakistan (Mohammed Ali) and Burma (U Nu), in the preparation and to approve the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung in April 1955.
Bogor Botanical Gardens has some interesting collections, the corpse flower or titan arum flower (Amorphophallus titanum Becc.) Which is the world’s largest inflorescence reached a height of 3 meters. At the time of blossoming, he smelled of carrion so inviting insects to help pollination. Make sure you find out and see it immediately when possible. Oil palm (Elaeis guinensis) is one of the agricultural commodities brought from West Africa to Indonesia and seeds developed initially in the Bogor Botanical Gardens. Next seed that is the parent of coconut sawitse-East Asia. Interesting right! Visit the orchid house where there are approximately 10,000 specimens Bogor Botanical orchid collection is displayed in a room that is equipped with fogging systems as a moisture regulator. Bogor Palace was in the middle of the green berrumput pages where hundreds of spotted deer graze every day. This obviously can you capture with the camera’s favorite and be sure to take pictures with the background of the building. Near the entrance of the garden there is the Zoological Museum that has a collection of about 300,000 species of land and sea animals from all over Indonesia. In the museum there is also a skeleton of a blue whale, the last rhino found in the highlands of Bandung, and a “living fossil” coelacanth fish found in North Sulawesi. Several historic buildings and places of interest to visit is the Park Teysmann, a European-style garden that was built in 1889 as a tribute to Johannes Teysmann, one of the curators Bogor Botanical Gardens. Another interesting place is the Valley Park Sudjana Kasan, Jalan Astrid, Cactus Garden, also JJ Smith Monument, Suspension Bridge, Tree Bats, Grave Netherlands, as well as the Monument Lady Raffles.
AROUND
The park is open daily for visitors. There is a paved walkway to stroll at leisure while admiring the age-old trees or walk under the leaves and listened to the current flow of the river rushing over large boulders.
Bogor Botanical Garden has several branches namely in Java, Sumatra and Bali, and the most beautiful is Cibodas Park located near the mountain Gede in Cipanas. This park is perfect as a place for treking. It was there that the researchers produced the quinine and coffee Java world famous.
TRANSPORTATION
From Jakarta, you can use public transport or use a private or rented car to go to Bogor. As mentioned above, a trip to Bogor will take about one hour from Jakarta via toll road.
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